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well this is something we must consider, is it posible in the global economy to continue without an eventual balancing effect I.E so long as poorer nations exist, labour will be cheaper there and so long as the infrastructure to facilitate production in those nations exist or is still ultimately cheaper than manufacturing in different country, then the need to stay competitive and the lust for profit will send buisness there.

I can't wait to see the day when machines are able to do complicated tasks. Like doing surgery or running banks. Sure, it can be abused - but I would really like to see the looks on the faces of these rich fucks when THEIR jobs are lost due to automation.

Morgan Freeman continues his narration: *Their business grew exponentially, and soon the redditors became majority shareholders. However, they were not aware the machines would become self-aware. I remember when it first happened. I awoke in the middle of the night, hungry and disoriented, saying to myself, "fuck it, im gonna make me some toast." Yes. I narrate my own thoughts too. Little did I know, the altercation that would ensue with my toast master 8000 android would have nearly cost me my own life, had I remembered to actually charge its battery beforehand. Thank Jesus I didn't... *

Robots already do surgery. Surgeons just twiddle the joysticks. Watson, that supercomputer that won Jeopardy, has been shrunk to the size of a pizza box and stripped of all non-medical knowledge - and it makes diagnoses 40% better than human doctors.

well if we can develop Plentiful Cheap/free energy and advanced recycling techniques.

I don't see why there needs to be poverty, I understand that the animal in us gives us the tendance to want to hord power and resources arranging ourselves into hierarchies and class groups.

However i think there is an alternative, what if resources need not be an instrument in class, why can it not be based on creativity and identity, based on fame and notoriety.

Instead of hording millions, spend them helping people and aquire fame for doing so and inspire others. There are plenty of resources on this planet and sometimes i feel that our competitive nature gets in the way...and it all seems to be grounded in primitive sexual cues rooted deep in our instinct.

If we told someone from a hundred years ago how many people work as farmers and how much food it produces they would wonder what the rest of society does all day. As increased productivity frees up workers we just work less or find better shit to do.

I am on the verge of a 4 year degree in Applied Networking and System Administration and an alright job market. 30 years ago that didn't exist outside of a few big UNIX systems.